The Wow I Can't Believe That News Story Thread

[Chula Vista]

Originally Posted by Frownland

You can't believe that Donny's a braying jackass? It's a well-embedded concept by now for me.

I can't believe that he still has so many jackass supporters. 4 out of 10 people in the country think of him favorably? Just can't wrap my head around that.

Bibles and babies and guns - oh my!
Bibles and babies and guns - oh my!

[Frownland]

Some benefited from the tax reform and that mobilized some support. It's not exactly the black and white elite beltway versus inbred hillbillies scenario that they make it seem like on TV.

[Frownland]

Also reactionaries
Also wafflers
Also authoritarians
Also trolls
Also nationalists
Also poor statistical reporting
Also bant in any context crew
Etc.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Frownland

Some benefited from the tax reform and that mobilized some support. It's not exactly the black and white elite beltway versus inbred hillbillies scenario that they make it seem like on TV.

By far, the most reprehensible tax that ever hit me personally was a notice that I had to pay a penalty for NOT having health insurance.

To be clear, I was uninsured and instead of saying hey occult that sucks here’s some form of coverage Obama’s policy sent me a notice that not only had I lost my insurance but I was now being charged for the privilege of not having insurance.

I thought Bank of America was **** for penalizing me for letting my account sink too low. ****ing minus $12 for being broke. But even those crooks don’t send me a bill for not having an account at all!

****ing Obamacare was unaffordable, it sucked, and it was literally the most regressive tax I’d ever heard of.

Trump is a cobnob c unt but he didn’t kick me personally right in the balls like Obama did.

[Anteater]

Originally Posted by Lisnaholic

It's not often that the Whitehouse and mainstream USA is prepared to honour Native Americans, so this was presumably an especially proud moment for the three vets, their friends and families. Unfortunately, a swaying, smirking jerk photobombed the occasion before making a completely out of place remark about Pocohantas:-

I thought Trump was hilarious there, especially if you know anything about Elizabeth Warren.

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by Anteater

I thought Trump was hilarious there, especially if you know anything about Elizabeth Warren.

Honestly, her claiming to be Indian to get Harvard off the hook for lack of diversity is ****ing offensive as hell. Seriously, **** her

And those Navajo Code Talkers might as well be Jews for Hitler. What a bunch of dip**** suckers.

[Frownland]

I think it's more on the college for clinging to every faint possibility of Native American heritage to cover for a lack of diversity.

[Frownland]

She did get some publicity through the cookbook that Trevor "Painfully Unfunny" Noah brought up.

This is all gossipy BS anyway. Also, didn't this happen like six months ago?

[OccultHawk]

Originally Posted by elphenor

when did you find out that you had lost your insurance?

if you fell below a minimum income you didn't qualify for the tax, if you had insurance for part of the year you'd pay less of the tax

I'm not saying I agree with the individual mandate, it's weasel worded as a "tax" to scrape by even being constitutional, but it's there because it's the only way Obamacare would work so that premiums wouldn't rise uncontrollably with, for example, people with pre-existing conditions, being added to the market

what's worse, a healthy person having to pick up subsidized insurance, or an unhealthy person being denied coverage (these were the real death panels)

Don’t give a f uck

Lost my job
Lost my insurance
Got a bill

I ain’t a potential timeshare sucker

You can’t word that up to justify it

[Lucem Ferre]

The mandate was actually a republican idea. They loved it when implemented by Mitt Romney and would probably have supported it if he beat Obama. Which he didn't. Ha ha, Romney. **** you. But un**** you because you're better than Trump. I miss you Romney.